Description
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship her. Charting Ricardo's expatriate life through his romances with this shape-shifting woman, Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize, has created a beguiling, epic romance about the life-altering power of obsession.
Info
ISBN: 9780312427764
Published Date: October 28, 2008
Publisher: Picador
Language: English
Page Count: 276
Size: 8.25" l x 5.47" w x 0.87" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Contemporary